Psychology of trading.

Now I am trying to choose the market where I can try to speculate. I ask all my friends and many of them advise me to try to speculate at FOREX. Here I write the summarizing of all advices about the trade at FOREX.
You should be morally ready to probable losses of committed finances. All participants in gamble in market FOREX are divided on two big groups depending on that approach to FOREX which they profess.
 The first group - the people wishing fast to take the maximum profit on committed finances without essential time temporary, intellectual both financial expenses, and evaluating FOREX as something similar to game in a roulette in a casino.
The second group - the people suitable to FOREX as to the serious financial market, deeply studying the theory and ready to spend is a lot of time and efforts to learn correct work in this market, and with the course of time to start to earn essential and, the most important, stable profit. Thus it is necessary to understand that FOREX in this sense it is very flexible and gives a field of action both for those, and for others. The spectrum of probable results is very great. At successful coincidence of circumstances it is possible, not possessing even elements of the market to double an ownership capital for 1 day. On the other hand, for large financial institutions in the West comprehensible yield in this market is the level of 20-60% per annum on the invested capital. These are two poles in possible strategy in this market. The game approach allows earning fast lump sum, but sustains risk of instant loss of all funds and has no long prospect. The market approach allows earning at the certain persistence decent money with limited enough risks. And before entering the market you for it should define, to what of poles you will be closer during the work.
Define in advance, that you wish to receive from the market, for what term, with what expenses and risks. Depending on the selected strategy of game on FOREX you should define for yourselves that time with which you are ready to allocate for studying market FOREX. At desire quickly to earn it is enough to study one book in the size in 200-300 pages, containing substantive provisions and concepts of market FOREX, and to start the beginning of operations. Thus the probability of a prize will change about 50% and to tend to downturn at increase in quantity of operations. More serious approach demands initially studying of a maximum quantity of an available information for full understanding of all bases of the market, available tools and methods of the analysis and forecasting of the market which can raise quality of your trade. Unnecessarily in the trade to use all existing ways and methods of forecasting and the analysis, but their knowledge and skill to apply them will allow to develop as much as possible effective system of the trades without which successful long trade is simply impossible.
Find the greatest possible quantity of time for studying the theory before the beginning of practice. It is necessary to find also in the life any part of time directly for participation during trade. Quantity of spent time for acquaintance with the current information, forecasting of the market, the analysis of own results more often in direct ratio received profit. Rash operations seldom enough lead to notable positive results. And even the earned profit at absence of the analysis and systematization in work is quickly lost in next transactions. Thus, all again depends on time.
The major stage before decision-making on the beginning of real game in market FOREX is definition of the size of money resources which you are ready to risk for reception of profit. Any speculative market, and market FOREX in particular, is interfaced to risk of loss of the committed finances. Therefore never put in game more money, than you are ready to lose. Possible losses (from which are not insured even professionals) should not become for you a financial trouble. Do not play on extra funds or for last means postponed for “rainy day”. Market FOREX far not that place where it is possible quickly and without problems to increase greatly a seed capital. It or risky game for the people possessing free money and ready is painless for them to lose, or long and laborious work on purchase of the skills capable in the future to bring the essential income on the invested capital. Therefore primary you should are morally ready to loss of means and to define that sum of funds which loss will be rather painless for your budget. Probably, it also will not occur, but to realize such opportunity better in advance, than to receive financial both psychological impact and feeling of desperation after already it is impossible to correct anything.
After you all the same have made a decision on test of the forces in market FOREX, the major stage becomes a choice of the partner or, easier speaking, the broker through whom will pass your operations. Even at brilliant possession of the theory and practice of the market the certain moments in activity of the intermediary between you and the market can reduce “on there is no” all your efforts and even to serve as the reason of losses. Therefore, before to begin trade, it is necessary to spend the certain efforts to a choice of the good partner. For this purpose it is necessary to collect more information on brokers working in the market, on their financial conditions and reputations. Various brokers offer commissions differing from each other, spreads, percent and the software for trade. The size of the commission, a spread, speed and convenience of the program, and also quality of the offered information on the market can render huge influence on an end result of your work. However, attractive financial conditions by all means should be combined with good reputation and long for works in the market. Otherwise even the earned funds can be for ever lost because of untidiness of the broker that is not for today such unusual occurrence.
At a choice of the broker, besides acquaintance with financial operating conditions, it is necessary to familiarize and test by all means the software which becomes the tool for execution of your will in the market. Different brokers offer their own programs written in different languages and possessing a different degree of speed, reliability, convenience and a various tooling of the analysis. Practically all intermediaries suggest to take advantage of their programs in a demonstration mode, and some people by means of them and to participate in free-of-charge competitions with monetary prize-winning fund. It is desirable to try for comparison some similar intermediaries on offered conditions. Necessarily spend not less than month for game in a demonstration mode, combining it with studying the theory of the market, testing the received knowledge in practice. It will allow you not only to check up quality and convenience of the software, but also you to check up more and more time necessity of the introduction into game on real money. Quality of work of the program and the personnel of the intermediary in a demonstration mode in many speaks about what quality can receive final service, having opened the real account. Constantly analyze results of own work and quality of service. A unique major condition in a demo-game is that with virtual money you should try to address also carefully as with real. Frequently game in a demonstration mode can force you not only replace the prospective intermediary, but also in general to make a decision on undesirability of your participation in game in the financial markets. Far not each person is capable to work successfully in the financial markets: the clear intellect is necessary for this purpose, endurance, skill to risk still more many other individual qualities.
During demonstration trade try to define precisely those tools and information sources which you will use at decision-making on fulfillment of transactions. Also, even prior to the beginning of real trade, it is necessary to define tactics of fulfillment of transactions. As you will often open positions, how much long you will hold the open positions in what the moments will make transactions, as well as in what size you will limit possible losses under the transaction, what part of the capital will use at fulfillment of each separate transaction - all is questions, answers on which will render very essential influence on end results. Besides allocate from huge weight of sources of the information and indicators of the market for itself what, in your opinion, are reliable and correspond to chosen tactics. In language of professionals it refers to as development of own trading system. In fulfillment of financial operations the order and complexity is necessary. The intuition and feeling of the market, undoubtedly, are an important point in decision-making, but they should not be principal causes for fulfillment of the transaction at all. Having developed the certain system of trade, it is necessary to recede from it only in the extreme cases. It is necessary to analyze constantly results of own system, to bring corrective amendments and constantly to improve it. Chaotic trade is a direct way to loss of the committed finances.
Starting real trade, it is necessary to understand firmly, that game in a demonstration mode or as speak, “on a paper” very essentially differs from real game on “real” money. The difference is comparable to sensations of the same sportsmen on training and in the world championship. At real game each movement of a rate is expressed in quite concrete sum of your means, and it puts huge psychological pressure upon the person. Even quite successful players at the slightest failure can lose a head and ability to sober thinking and the analysis. But also excessive euphoria from the received prize can play with you a malicious jest.
Develop own system of successful trade and strictly follow it. Having chosen trading strategy and tactics, having developed own trading system, do not wait, that 100% of transactions become profitable. Any professional makes both profitable and unprofitable transactions. It is important, that the quantity and total result of profitable transactions exceeded the same parameters unprofitable. The best professionals approximately only in 70% of cases reach positive result under the transaction. The profit earns during the long period of time at the cost of excess of the size of the total income over losses. Therefore the individual unprofitable transaction should not upset and unsettle you. You only should analyze closely the reasons which have led to losses and to improve own system of trade in due course to achieve stable growth of results.

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